Reports relating to the sanitary condition of the city of LondonJ. W. Parker and son, 1854 - 312 pages |
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... advantages , such as they are , which belong to this system , might , I believe , easily be obtained under altered arrange- ments : the disadvantages are glaring . It might be invidious to refer to illustrations of their reality : but ...
... advantages , such as they are , which belong to this system , might , I believe , easily be obtained under altered arrange- ments : the disadvantages are glaring . It might be invidious to refer to illustrations of their reality : but ...
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... advantage of discussing with men who have given genius , inquiry , and re- flection to their development . Thank God ! the number of persons capable of apprehending the cause , and ready to take in- terest in its promotion , is now ...
... advantage of discussing with men who have given genius , inquiry , and re- flection to their development . Thank God ! the number of persons capable of apprehending the cause , and ready to take in- terest in its promotion , is now ...
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... most effectual , still , notwithstanding these advantages , there has passed away irrevocably during the year so undue a proportion of human life . Let it not be imagined that the word cholera is B 2 FIRST ANNUAL REPORT .
... most effectual , still , notwithstanding these advantages , there has passed away irrevocably during the year so undue a proportion of human life . Let it not be imagined that the word cholera is B 2 FIRST ANNUAL REPORT .
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... advantage from their nearness to the stream , are constantly disgusted and injured by its misuse . While the consideration of this most important measure is pending , I would invite attention to some circumstances , by which even the ...
... advantage from their nearness to the stream , are constantly disgusted and injured by its misuse . While the consideration of this most important measure is pending , I would invite attention to some circumstances , by which even the ...
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... nuisance and injury , except to the very few who are interested in their mainte- nance ; and that it would be of public advantage that they should be filled up . WATER - SUPPLY . II . I am sure that 1.6 FIRST ANNUAL REPORT .
... nuisance and injury , except to the very few who are interested in their mainte- nance ; and that it would be of public advantage that they should be filled up . WATER - SUPPLY . II . I am sure that 1.6 FIRST ANNUAL REPORT .
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Act of Parliament advantage adverted annual arise arrangements atmosphere Author average Bishopsgate Board of Health burial carbonate causes Cemetery cesspools Cheaper Edition chemical Cholera circumstances City of London classes clause cleanliness consideration Court Cripplegate dead death-rate deaths decomposition diarrhoea disease distribution district doubt drainage duty dwellings effect endeavoured endemic enumerated epidemic erysipelas established evils exist extramural fever gentlemen ground habits hard water Haslemere house-drainage houses important infection influence injurious inmates instances interment J. W. DONALDSON jurisdiction labour likewise lodging-house London Company ment metropolis metropolitan mortality nuisance Nuisances Removal observe occasion Octavo offensive organisation period persons pestilence poison poor poorer population practical present prevailed principle probably proportion purposes putrefaction quarter end recognised referred regard regulations relating removal render Report require requisite respect river sanitary condition sanitary improvement Second Edition soakage soil sub-district supply of water tion typhus ventilation water-supply West London Union
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